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White knight may refer to:

a literary stock character, see knight (stock character)
The White Knight Fitzgibbon
White Knight Fitzgibbon
The Pedigree of The White Knight was one of three hereditary knighthoods within Ireland dating from the Medieval period. It was held by the Fitzgibbon family, and has since become dormant...

, an extinct hereditary Anglo-Norman title of nobility used in Ireland

In literature

The White Knight (Through the Looking Glass)
The White Knight (Through the Looking Glass)
The White Knight is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's book Through the Looking-Glass.He represents the chess piece of the same name....

, a character in Through the Looking Glass which resembles the chess-piece
White Knight, is Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...

as referred to by himself
The White Knight (book)
The White Knight (book)
The White Knight is a biography of author Lewis Carroll by Alexander L. Taylor, first published in 1952....

, a 1952 biography of Lewis Carroll

Vehicles

HMM-165
HMM-165
Marine Medium Tilt Rotor Squadron 165 is a United States Marine Corps Tilt-rotor squadron consisting of MV-22B Osprey transport aircraft...

is medium helicopter squadron in the United States Marine Corps with the nickname White Knights
Posnansky/Fronius PF-1 White Knight
Posnansky/Fronius PF-1 White Knight
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, glider
Scaled Composites White Knight, the aircraft used to carry and launch Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne
Scaled Composites White Knight Two
Scaled Composites White Knight Two
The Scaled Composites Model 348 White Knight Two is a jet-powered cargo aircraft which will be used to launch the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft. It is being developed by Scaled Composites as the first stage of Tier 1b, a two-stage to suborbital-space manned launch system...

, the technological successor of the first

Entertainment

Knight (chess)
Knight (chess)
The knight is a piece in the game of chess, representing a knight . It is normally represented by a horse's head and neck. Each player starts with two knights, which begin on the row closest to the player, one square from the corner...

, playing piece in the game of chess
White Knight Chronicles, a video game by Level-5 for the PlayStation 3
The Knights of Falador, a fictional organisation in the online game RuneScape
RuneScape
RuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game released in January 2001 by Andrew and Paul Gower, and developed and published by Jagex Games Studio. It is a graphical browser game implemented on the client-side in Java, and incorporates 3D rendering...
"The White Knight" (Cledus Maggard song)
The White Knight (Cledus Maggard song)
"The White Knight" is a novelty country music song made famous by Jay Huguely, who - recording as Cledus Maggard & The Citizen's Band - enjoyed a brief run of national popularity with the song when it became popular in 1976.-Song story:...

, a 1976 hit single by Cledus Maggard
The name of the train engine in the Tokyopop manga Snow
Snow (manga)
Snow is an original English-language manga written and illustrated by Morgan Luthi and published by Tokyopop. It is Luthi's first comic, published after repeated rejections from the Rising Stars of Manga anthology....
"The White Knight" is also a nickname for Pittsburgh Penguin's superstar Evgeni Malkin.
"Gotham's White Knight", a nickname given to Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight (film)
The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Nolan's Batman film series and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins...
White Knight, a character in the Generator Rex
Generator Rex
Generator Rex is an American animated television series for Cartoon Network and is created by "Man of Action" . John Fang of Cartoon Network Studios serves as supervising director. It is inspired by the comic M. Rex, published by Image Comics in 1999...

cartoon series.

Other uses

White knight (business)
White knight (business)
In business, a white knight, or "friendly investor," may be a corporation or a person that intends to help another firm. There are many types of white knights...

, a corporation, private company, or person that intends to help a firm
White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
The White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was considered the most militant as well as the most violent Ku Klux Klan in history. They originated in Mississippi in the early 1960s under the leadership of Samuel Bowers, its first Grand Wizard. The White Knights of Mississippi was formed in 1964, and it...

, one of the most violent and militant branches of the Ku Klux Klan
White Knight (chocolate)
White Knight (Chocolate)
A White Knight is a chocolate-coated, chewy, mint-flavoured confectionery bar sold in Australia. It is manufactured by Nestle Australia. The packaging is blue and white and features a picture of a knight on a horse...

, an Australian mint flavored chocolate candy bar
White Knight (software)
White Knight (software)
White Knight was a commercial communications program by Scott Watson for the Apple Macintosh that replaced his Red Ryder bulletin board system software....

, a terminal program for Macintosh computers
White Knight tumble dryers, a brand of Crosslee plc
Crosslee plc
Crosslee plc is an appliances company formed from the tumble dryer division of Philips. Its best known products are White Knight brand tumble dryers. The company is based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. In 2004 it sold 650,000 units, mostly for export....

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